★About XIV IAEG Congress 2023 The 14th Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment will be held in Century City International Convention Centre, Chengdu, China from September 21 to 27, 2023. Based on the theme of "Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth", the congress aims to enhance the multi-disciplinary and research development of international engineering geology and the environment, and contribute to the advancement of major projects, ecological progress, and a habitable earth. Topics for research and discussion will include in global climate change mitigation and adaption, geological hazard assessment and prevention, geotechnical properties of rock and soil mass, engineering geology applied to traffic, energy, urban and marine, ecological environment protection in major projects, new theories and technologies in engineering geology, etc. We warmly welcome the worldwide engineering geological community to come to Chengdu to participate in this academic event.

★Conference Theme

-Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth

 

★Keynote Speakers

1. Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan

International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA)

 

2. Chungsik Yoo

Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

 

3. Resat Ulusay

International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM)

 

4. Charles Wang Wai Ng

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou Campus, China

 

5. Nicola CASAGLI

University of Florence, Italy

 

6. Vassilis Marinos

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

7. J. Louis van Rooy

University of Pretoria, South Africa

 

8. Faquan Wu

Shaoxing University, China

 

★General Scientific Themes

The topics included but not limited to below:

 

1. Engineering Geomechanics of Rock and Soil Masses

Chairs: Haris Saroglou, Qing Wang, Shengwen Qi

Session 1: Ground Property Characterization from In-Situ Tests

Session 2: Structure of Soil and Rock Mass

Session 3: Engineering Geology and Environment of Redbeds

Session 4: Rock Mass Engineering Geomechanics

Session 5: Interface Engineering Geomechanics

Session 6: Behavior and Treatment of Special Soil and Soft Rock

Session 7: Multiphase Flow and Geomechanics in CO2 Geological Sequestration

Session 8: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

 

2. Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Chair: Fujun Niu

Session 1: Extreme Climate, Soil and Water Conservation, and Sustainable Development in Semiarid Regions

Session 2: Cryospheric Changes and Sustainable Development

Session 3: Changes in the Permafrost Eco-Environment and Its Adaptive Protection

Session 4: Disaster Risks and Engineering Solutions in Permafrost Regions

Session 5: Impact of Climate and Environmental Change on Engineering

Session 6: Frozen Soil and Ice Mechanics

 

3. Megacity Engineering Geology

Chairs: Atsushi Yashima, Yu Huang

Session 1: Development and Utilization of Urban Underground Space and Adverse Geology

Session 2: Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis: Integrating Numerical and Physical Modelling with Field Observation to Predict Impacts on Coastal Cities

Session 3: Recent Advances in Megacity Engineering Geology

Session 4: Characterizing and Modelling the Effects of Surface Geology on Earthquake-Induced Ground Shaking

Session 5: Enhance the Resilience and Adaptation of Megacity to Natural Hazards

Session 6: Seismic Design and Analysis of Urban Underground Space

Session 7: Water-Related Geotechnical Challenges and Innovations for Sustainable Megacity Development

Session 8: Megacity Geotechnical Engineering under Complicated Geological Conditions

Session 9: Uncertainty Quantification of Megacity Engineering Geology and Its Effect on Underground Structures

 

4. Geoenvironmental Engineering and Ecological Solutions

Chairs: Yujun Cui, Bin Shi

Session 1: Green Resilient and Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development

Session 2: Engineering Barriers

Session 3: Advances in Geological Reinforcement Techniques

Session 4: Atmosphere-plant-soil Interactions

Session 5: Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Sites

Session 6: Novel Contaminants in Environmental Geology

Session 7: NbS (Nature-based Solution) for Environmental Protection and Ecological Restoration

Session 8: Recent Development in Bio-Geoengineering

Session 9: Utilization of Solid Waste in Geotechnical Engineering

Session 10: Expansive Soil/Clay and Its Environmental Effects

Session 11: Solid Waste Landfills and Relevant Environmental Geotechnics

Session 12: Sustainable and Resilient Construction and Materials

 

5. Active Tectonics, Geomorphology and Geological Hazards

Chairs: Masahiro Chigira, Yueping Yin

Session 1: Rockslide/Rock Avalanches: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Emplacement Dynamics

Session 2: Active Faults and Earthquake Chained Hazard Zonation

Session 3: Large-Scale Geohazard in Active Tectonic Region, as a Special Session of C24-IAEG

Session 4: Tectonics, Surface Processes, and Geohazards

Session 5: Mechanism, Evolution, and Prevention of Geological Hazards Caused by Earthquakes

 

6. Marine Engineering Geology, Marine Geo-environment and Disasters -3rd International Symposium on Marine Engineering Geology (ISMEG 2023)

Chairs: Dong-Sheng Jeng, J.Paul Liu, Kawamura Kiichiro, Yonggang Jia

Session 1: Technological and Methodological Advances for Marine Engineering Geology, Marine Geoenvironment and Disasters

Session 2: Recent Development on Submarine Landslide and Its Hazard Chains

Session 3: Coastal Engineering Environment

Session 4: Nearshore and Offshore Engineering Geological Disasters

Session 5: Geological Disasters Associated with Natural Gas Hydrate Systems and Their Effects on Marine Geological Environment

Session 6: Monitoring and Risk Evaluation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Geological Storage

Session 7: Marine Shallow Gas Emission: Mechanism and Monitoring

Session 8: Geophysical Exploration of Seafloor Structures

Session 9: Recent Development on Seabed Process in Marine Environments

 

7. Deep Earth Resource and Energy Exploitation

Chairs: Mark Eggers, Wanghua Sui

Session 1: Geomechanics for Deep Oil and Gas Exploitation

Session 2: Engineering Geological Hazards in Deep Mining

Session 3: Groundwater and Stability in Deep Mining

Session 4: Engineering Geology for Underground Energy Storage

Session 5: Major Engineering Construction in Mining Subsidence Area

Session 6: Exploration and Exploitation of Medium-deep Geothermal Resources

Session 7: Resources and Energy Exploration and Cooperation along the Maritime Silk Road

 

8. Geohazard Mechanisms, Risk Assessment and Control, Monitoring and Early Warning

Chairs: Nicola Casagli, Qiang Xu

Session 1: Georisk Assessment Using Machine Learning

Session 2: Recent Development of Numerical Models for Simulating Geohazard Processes and Chains of Geological Hazards

Session 3: Debris Flow Dynamic Process and Its Effects on Landform

Session 4: Debris Flows: Mechanics, Monitoring, Experiments, Assessment, Prevention, and Risk Management

Session 5: Research on Disaster Prevention and Environmental Protection in Japan

Session 6: Groundwater and Land Subsidence for Infrastructure Development in the Deltaic Plains

Session 7: Integrating Hydrologic Information into the Next Generation of Landslide Early Warning Systems

Session 8: Mechanism, Mitigation, and Risk Management of Geohazards Triggered by Extreme Weather Events

Session 9: Chains of Geohazards: Mechanism, Modelling and Prediction

Session 10: Navigating Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Management: Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events

Session 11: Coseismic Landslides: Disaster Risk Cognition and Reduction

Session 12: Advances in Disaster Reduction of Large Landslides: Activities of JTC1 and iRALL

Session 13: Advances in Modelling Rainfall-Induced Landslides

Session 14: Landslide Dams: Formation, Stability, Breaching and Risk Management

Session 15: Numerical Methods for Engineering Geology and Geohazards

 

9. New Technology in Engineering Geology-3rd Shaoxing International Forum

Chairs: Rafig Azzam, Faquan Wu

Session 1: Advanced Monitoring Technologies for Geoengineering

Session 2: In-situ Geo-technology

Session 3: The Progress of Multiscale Geotechnical Numerical Modelling

Session 4: New Laboratory Techniques and Their Applications in Engineering Geology

Session 5: Current Trends and Future Perspectives of Machine Learning Applications in Geoscience and Engineering Geology

 

10. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects

Chairs: Vassilis Marinos, Tianbin Li

Session 1: Geological Problems and Countermeasures in Transportation Tunnel Engineering

Session 2: Large Deformation in Squeezing or Intensively Fractured Rocks

Session 3: Tunneling Practice of TBM under Adverse Geological Condition

Session 4: Mechanism, Monitoring, and Early Warning of Dynamic Disasters in Deep Underground Engineering

Session 5: Improvement of Soft Clay Ground

Session 6: Hazard Prevention and Control of Groundwater System

Session 7: Advanced Geological Prediction Techniques and their Applications in Tunnel Construction

Session 8: Engineered Slope Stability and Control

Session 9: Physical Modeling for Geological and Geotechnical Engineering

Session 10: Prevention and Mitigation of Geohazards in Reservoir Area

 

11. Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Engineering Geology

Chairs: Atiye Tugrul, Jianxin Hua

Session 1: Investigation, Design, and Monitoring of Cultural Heritage

Session 2: Material, Environment, and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Session 3: Engineering Geology in Preservation and Protection of Heritage Sites, Stone Resources, and Geo-heritage

 

12. Young Engineering Geologist Afternoon

Chairs: Stratis Karantanellis, Changdong Li

Session 1: Mitigating Climate-Induced Geohazards in Vulnerable Hotspots

Session 2: Multiphysics Coupling in Fractured Rocks and Its Engineering Application

Session 3: Creep Characteristics of Rock and Soil Mass and Its Disaster-induced Mechanism: Testing, Monitoring, Early Warning, and Prevention

Session 4: Rock Joint Detection and Characterization from 3D Point Clouds

Session 5: Geological Hazards and Risk Management

Session 6: Intelligent Prediction and Risk Assessment of Geohazards with Multi-source Monitoring Data

Session 7: Towards Innovative Mitigation Strategies for Rockfalls/Rock Avalanches

 

★Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts

The abstract collection system for oral presentations and posters is NOW OPEN!

If you prefer not to publish a paper, but instead of preparing an abstract for an oral presentation or poster to be presented during the Congress, please submit your abstract for an oral presentation or poster by June 30, 2023. A written paper is not required for this abstract, however, your oral or poster presentation must be presented by the author. Please note that the abstract will NOT be published.

 

Submit your abstract via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaeg2022a

Please read the guidelines prior to submitting your abstract at https://www.iaeg2023.org/cfa.html

 

★IAEG Organization

* Sponsor:

International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG)

* Organizers:

IAEG China National Group

Engineering Geology Commission, China Geology Society

State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology

 

★Academic Committee (Alphabetical Order)

* Chairs:  

Sijing Wang

Runqiu Huang

* Academic Committee Members(to be added):

Anthony Bowden

Bin Shi

Bo An-Jang

Carlos Delgado

Charles W. W. Ng

Chungsik Yoo

Defang Kong

Dingcheng Huang

Faquan Wu

Fawu Wang

Helen Reeves

Hengxing Lan

Hsein Juang

Huiming Tang

Janusz Wasowski

Jean Hutchinson

Jean-Alain Fleurisson

Jian Yang

Jianbing Peng

Jianmin Zhang

Jianxin Hua

Jinxiu Yan

John Ludden

Julien Cohen-Waeber

Kyoji Sassa

Lansheng Wang

Manchao He

Martin Culshaw

Moshood Niyi Tijani

Nicola Casagli

Niek Rengers

Peng Cui

Qing Wang

Rafig Azzam

Ranjan Kumar Dahal

Resat Ulusay

Ricardo Oliveira

Roger Frank

Scott F. Burns

Shitian Wang

Shutao Yang

Vassilis Marinos

Victor Manuel Hernandez Madrigal

Wei Wu

Wei Zhang

Xiao Li

Xiating Feng

Yong-Seok SEO

Yueping Yin

Yusheng Gao

Zelian Chen

Zuyu Chen

 

★Organizing Committee (Alphabetical Order)

* Chair:

Qiang Xu

* Vice Chairs:

Qiangbing Huang

Shengwen Qi

Xiangjun Pei

Xiaoqing Chen

Yuyong Jiao

* General Secretary

Xuanmei Fan

* Organizing Committee Members (to be added):

Chaojun Ouyang

Chaosheng Tang

Jianjun Zhao

Liangqing Wang

Ning Liang

Wen Zhang

Yuhuan Song

 

★Contact Us

* Session and Paper/Abstract Submission

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zengpeng15@cdut.edu.cn

 

SHENGHUA CUI

cuishenghua18@cdut.edu.cn

 

* Sponsorship

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wangdongpo@cdut.edu.cn

 

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